The iAudio M5, River H1x0 & iPod 1G 2G 4G Greyscale WPS Graveyard

These are themes which do not have a permissive license, and thus can not be modified by anyone other than the original author.
When the replacement theme site is complete only themes with an approved license (CC-by-SA) will be allowed.
If you are the original author of one of the themes found below you are free to clearly license your theme, ensure it meets the ThemeGuidelines, and then move it to the appropriate WpsGallery page.

I love RockBox but so far none of the WPSs available 'do it' for me. I wanted a clean screen, easy to read with all the basics. I think I well succeeded. Here are screen caps of 'Britten', the second one shows the 'coming up next' function in the lower window (it's not always there b/c in my experience, having it there all the time is distracting).

Because of the legnth of the code, I'm not putting it here. But I've attached a zip. Just 'extract' the all the zip files into your .rockbox folder and the font, .wps and supporting icon files will show up in the right place (or so my tests confirm).

NOTES:
1. I can't test all the file format notices since I really only use .mp3 files -- let me know if there are any problems with this.
2. The 'S' with the arrows curving around it shows up with the 'shuffle' mode is on

I've made this WPS for iriver for people who have well tagged files... It's optimized for the font "snapfont" which is not very big
to be true... Note that the screenshot is not perfect since the last line is scrolling between nextsong and actual playlist...

This is one that we're using on iriver H120s/H140s. It is based on designs by Jonny, svenbox and kenshin at MisticRiver.
I use it with the 6x13B font and find myself to be happier with it than the iriver's firmware display. Mostly that is because I have
the opportunity to show genre and/or composer in addition to the cool rockbox features showing next track and playlist name.
All of those will show in the bottom 2nd and 3rd to last lines if they are non-null and will rotate in 5s intervals.
Huge thanks goes out to Rockbox for giving us (iriver users) this sweet firmware with two features that I, for one, have desired most:
gapless playback and on-the-fly playlists.

Long Years I had to work with the custom Iriver Firmware, I liked the icons very much.
But rockbox is for sure the better alternative for playing my music, but I felt the need for a more "playful" kind of WPS and here it is:

As You can see I used some blank lines in order to keep it readable and to avoid "information overflow".
Many of my files just have an artist and a title tag, further I need information about the album the track belongs to
if there's no album tag the directory1 is displayed (i.e. the directory "just below" the file). In the line under the progressbar
the last shown value is either the ID3-Tag Version Number (not important to me but I wanted some number to fill the space)
or if tagged (and very important for me) the year of release/recording.
I translated the German words so you can see what the words mean.

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%x|a|Classic.bmp|0|10|
%ac%s%?it<%it|%fn>
%ac%s%?ic<%ic|%d1>
%al%pc %ac%?pp<%pp of %pe|%fbkbps> %ar%pt
%pb
%ac%s%?id<%id|%d2>
%ac%s%?ia<%ia|%?d3<%d3|%fc>>
%acBattery:%bt-%bl
%ac%s%?It<%It|Loading Next Track Info>
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This is a classic WPS I made using Chris Berkley's "Nextbar" bmp.
It is best viewable with chicago 12 as default font and statusbar turned on.
Visibility and rendering important data is the goal of this WPS.

This WPS has been renamed to 'boxes' and is included as standard in Rockbox builds dated 20051015 or later.
To use, go to General Options -> Display -> Browse WPS files and select 'boxes'.

This WPS uses the default font (or any 8 pixel high font - Rockbox ships with a few). The WPS file is 2k in size
and requires a Rockbox daily build dated 20051114 or later. It is based on a WPS by the_engineer from MisticRiver, found at http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=26193&page=3. To install extract the contents of the archive to your /.rockbox/wps/ directory.
Status bar needs to be turned off.

- The Engineeer II -
This theme is meant to be easily read, clutter-free and nice-looking.
The 'nice-looking' part perhaps everybody doesn't agree with, but I think that the other two goals are fulfilled.
Both WPS and RWPS are included.

Notes:
- Use Nedore-8 or another 8px font.
- This WPS / RWPS is included in Rockbox.

Simply Rockbox

All 3 of my WPS's are designed with the status bar on. I like things to be straightforward and almost minimalistic,
hence the 2 only text WPS's and the 1 minimal graphics WPS.

you can download all my WPS's and the supporting bitmaps here simply-phil.zip
-17 November 2005 - Updated to include a simply-small.rwps (works with all 3 WPSes although the last line gets clipped
when paired with larger fonts)
-18 November 2005 - Updated to (1) include cfg files to place in the themes folder, (2) a simply-large.rwps, &
(3) a fix for the graphics in simply-rxbx.wps that broke after linus's fix.

Just unzip the file at the root of your player. The zip file contain the '.rockbox' directory in which you'll find a complete theme : the wps (main LCD), the rwps (the remote control LCD)
and the cfg (config file for the theme) files and the images.

the font used is the : rockbox_default.fnt
and without statusbar.

one little issue :
When the artist name, album name or title name is larger than the screen, the images on the same line are hidden.

And a slight revision of Marquee from above, Marquee-adapted, which includes rotator's nifty Rockbox name graphic from
Misticriver.net; the use of codec graphics tags; and some tweaks to the code, especially to provide some improved defaults
where tag information does not exist.

Updated on 2006-09-24: graphics should look correct now (non-inverted)

Unicode skin!

This skin uses the unifont.fnt file, which means that you'll be able to view tags and filenames in any language.
This works with any skin, of course, but since this font is rather large, 16 pixels high, it messes the skin up unless it's designed right.
This WPS is based on boxes, which is included in the distribution, but most things have been modified.
The remote control is mostly the same as the main screen.

*Don't forget to convert your tags to unicode, if you haven't already! *
Otherwise you'll be able to view only one other language by using a default codepage, except for English (and other ascii-based languages).
Foobar2000 and Unicode Rewriter are recommended tools for that.

Here's a few screencaps:

Uniskin

There's a lot of stuff happening in this WPS:

The first line shows a battery indicator, battery time left, and a play indicator.The play indicator is an animated spinning disc, and the pause/ffwd/rewd icons are also blinking.

I'd post the code for the main .wps file, but it's too damn big for comfort. I've commented most things though, so it should be fairly clear.
I'm thinking I have to make another unifont-based WPS, with less clutter, and easier to read, but that's for later.

This skin uses the alutBS18-L1.fnt which is ridiculously big. It's for viewing and navigating through files while driving a car. It's very usable the rest of the time, I believe.
I have used it for a few months (before Themes, hence the ASCII divider). I have excellent vision, and still prefer the large size.

It started out as simple anyway; I suppose anything with "Next" can't be considered simple. ...and then I added drop shadows to things, including the progress bar. However, there is no alternating text, no technical detail clutter (bitrate, dB etc.).

It uses the default installed Helvetica (HelvR12). I'm surprised more don't use this or other Helveticas. This one leaves a bit of a gap at the bottom, but has a nice high line spacing for readability. It's also good and narrow, so plenty can fit on without scrolling (for instance, as much as nedore9 in LarryLlama, but much more readable).

The theme uses the unicode font for compatibility and clarity, and uses the default status bar.

The main screen shows the track title, the artist, album, progress bar, song elapsed/remain, playlist position/total, bitrate and the track that is coming up next. This last line switches between the artist and the track title every 5s.

The remote screen shows the track title, the artist and the song elapsed/remain.

Here's a WPS that manages to pack a lot of information onto the screen while still maintaining a pretty clean look, IMO. (Kind of like a fusion between the iPod WPS's and the Marquee WPS.) It includes Next info, as well as alternating misc info about the current song (composer, file size, bitrate, etc.)

The very top line of information alternates between the battery percentage and the battery time left (except when charging, when it only displays the battery percentage). The battery level displayed changes even when the unit is plugged in (so you can see how much it's charged). The line after the space in the middle alternates between various miscellaneous information, including technical data (bitrate, filetype, etc.), file size, genre/year, and composer. It also has Next info at the bottom, which shows Song Name/Artist.

All of the images are my own except for a few I borrowed from the ipodVOL WPS. Also, I was very influenced by a lot of other existing WPS's.

Also, it has a remote wps (rwps) as well, and is included in the zip file TheMessage.zip as a theme. It uses the Nimbus 12 font. To install, just unzip into the unit's root directory (or manually copy the files to the right places).

This is the first wps that I made. The new progress bar tag with height and x-y position inspire me to do it.
I was first trying to make the cassette image by myself but then I found most practical to get it from a real cassette image from internet.
Also I took the icons from others wps that I like it.

It uses the Snap font. To install, just unzip into the unit's wps directory (or manually copy the files to the right places).

This is my final version (so far) of the gblaster.wps for all people who like ghettoblasters, boomboxes
and the classic c64 game ;)
uses nedore-8.fnt
update: now with crossfade/replaygain-info, a bigger progress bar and a backdrop

The idea was to go back to the roots of all portable music - the ghettoblaster.
The cassette is animated and i put the imo most important infos into the wps.
Be sure to use nedore-8.fnt

To the extent of interest, an updated version of the Marquee-adapted WPS, Marquee Nouveau, for the iRiver H1xx players.
The principal difference is the use of a graphical control panel rather than the default Rockbox status bar. (Also, because of
current limitations as to the number of images, I use text in place of images for the codecs indicators--a side benefit is, they tend
to be easier to see.)

As with the Marquee-adapted WPS, Marquee Nouveau displays a great deal of information, in both the WPS and the RWPS
(included as well, and containing the vast majority--but not all--of the information shown in the WPS), but without crowding
and for a relatively larger font, Nimbus-12. The control panel includes an indicator for crossfaded playback, as well as a charging
battery graphic (which also flashes to show a low state).

The attached zip file includes the WPS and RWPS files, the needed images, a cfg file, and a png file showing the WPS and RWPS
in operation. Many thanks to those noted earlier for their various images used here, as well as thanks to Karoly Lorentey for new images,
some of which have been adapted, from his Bold WPS (shown and included above).